bed in

An allusion to gardening, where a plant or seed is introduced into a bed of soil where it can grow.

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bed in (third-person singular simple present beds in, present participle bedding in, simple past and past participle bedded in)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To allow or help to settle in; to make (someone) feel at home.

   It took some time to be bedded in, but soon he knew his way around his new workplace.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 115:

     The new trains were introduced in conjunction with Automatic Train Operation [...] and new signalling, but it took months for this to 'bed in', [...] But now the new signalling has bedded in, and the Central is the line that got its upgrade out of the way early.

• Biden, denib, in bed